US 11,730,318 B2
Roasting rack and carving board system
Phillip John Patrick Rose, San Francisco, CA (US); and Adam Blank, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Williams-Sonoma, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Williams-Sonoma, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/470,444.
Application 17/470,444 is a division of application No. 16/567,696, filed on Sep. 11, 2019, granted, now 11,197,583.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/729,559, filed on Sep. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0401230 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. A47J 43/18 (2006.01); A47J 47/00 (2006.01); A47J 45/06 (2006.01); A47J 36/02 (2006.01); A22C 21/00 (2006.01); A22C 17/00 (2006.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.01)
CPC A47J 43/18 (2013.01) [A22C 17/0013 (2013.01); A22C 21/0046 (2013.01); A47J 36/02 (2013.01); A47J 45/06 (2013.01); A47J 47/005 (2013.01); A23L 5/10 (2016.08)] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of preparing a food item comprising the steps of:
a. positioning the food item on a rack including spaced support members;
b. positioning the rack in or on a cooking device;
c. cooking the food item using the cooking device while the food item is positioned on the rack;
d. removing the rack with the food item positioned thereon from the cooking device and carrying the rack using handles positioned on the rack;
e. transferring the rack with the food item positioned thereon to a cutting board featuring grooves;
f. inserting the spaced support members of the rack into the grooves of the cutting board so that the spaced support members are recessed with respect to a cutting surface of the cutting board and the food item rests on the cutting surface of the cutting board; and
g. pivoting the handles into corresponding grooves in the cutting board.